Preliminary Assessment of Pediatric Health Care Quality and Patient Safety in the United States Using Readily Available Administrative Data

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. e416-e425 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. McDonald ◽  
S. M. Davies ◽  
C. A. Haberland ◽  
J. J. Geppert ◽  
A. Ku ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Pediatric Health Care ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

HEALTHCARE QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY (HQPS): AN EXPERIENCE AT INDIAN HOSPITAL, MONUSCO, D R CONGO

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Sushil Kumar ◽  
PK Dash ◽  
Gurdarshdeep Singh Madan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Care Staff ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Quality Patient Care ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

Maintaining health care quality and patient safety standards are essential for providing high quality patient care while ensuring safety to both patient and health care staff. DHMOSH requires all UN medical establishments to comply with HQPS standards which are derived from JCI specication. Our hospital is highest eld medical echelon in the UN. Patient safety and health care quality is not a destination but a continuous journey and this article intends to share the journey of the hospital through challenges faced, undergoing course correction and nally successfully undergoing HQPS assessment during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

New Paths to Professional Nursing: Using Encouragement to Prepare a Minority Workforce to Enter the Nursing Profession

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Elisheba Haqq-Stevens ◽  
Kathleen E. Zavotsky ◽  
Sarah Kelly ◽  
Christopher Duffy ◽  
Claudia Pagani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Personal Support ◽  
Professional Nursing ◽  
Professional Nurses

The current professional nursing workforce in the United States is predominantly White and female, even though minorities compose 33% of the national population (Travers, Smaldone, & Cohn, 2015). Minority patients are more effectively cared for when their particular cultural milieu is taken into consideration as part of their health care plan (Sullivan, 2004). According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), health care quality remains suboptimal for diverse populations in the United States because some individuals do not receive quality care or do not believe their values are honored or respected (AHRQ, 2016). Minority professional nurses are necessary to address the racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health (RWJBH), in collaboration with Rutgers University School of Nursing (RUSON), implemented New Paths to Professional Nursing (NPPN) to increase the number of minority professional nurses in practice at RWJBH. The program provided financial resources as well as infrastructural, group, and personal support for RWJBH minority employees who desired to complete prerequisites to enter RUSON. The academic success of the employees who participated in NPPN was attributed to a unique combination of financial assistance and support and encouragement. The purpose of this article is to describe in detail the development of the program and the effective encouragement strategies that have led to success for NPPN minority student/employees. This article examines, defines, and illustrates particular types of effective encouragement and suggests that this encouragement was the key to success for the NPPN minority students.

scholarly journals Quality of health care and patient safety in extreme adversity settings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a qualitative multicountry assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Mondher Letaief ◽  
Sheila Leatherman ◽  
Linda Tawfik ◽  
Ahmed Alboksmaty ◽  
Matthew Neilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

Background: Quality and patient safety are essential for the provision of effective health care services. Research on these aspects is lacking in settings of extreme adversity. Aims: This study aimed to explore the perception of health care stakeholders working in extreme adversity settings of the quality of health care and patient safety. Methods: This was a qualitative study conducted through semistructured interviews with 26 health care stakeholders from seven countries of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region which are experiencing emergencies. The interviews explored the respondents’ perspectives of four aspects of quality and patient safety: definition of the quality of health care, challenges to the provision of good quality health care in emergency settings, priority health services and populations in emergency settings, and interventions to improve health care quality and patient safety. Results: The participants emphasized that saving lives was the main priority in extreme adversity settings. While all people living in emergency situations were vulnerable and at risk, the respondents considered women and children, poor and disabled people, and those living in hard-to-reach areas the priority populations to be targeted by improvement interventions. The challenges to quality of health care were: financing problems, service inaccessibility, insecurity of health workers, break down in health systems, and inadequate infrastructure. Respondents proposed interventions to improve quality, however, their effective implementation remains challenging in these exceptional settings. Conclusions: The interventions identified can serve as a basis for improvements in health care quality that could be adapted to extreme adversity settings.

scholarly journals A Brief History of Quality Improvement in Health Care and Spinal Surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5S-9S
Author(s):  
Kevin Hines ◽  
Nikolaos Mouchtouris ◽  
John J. Knightly ◽  
James Harrop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Spinal Surgery ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Quality Improvement Initiative ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Technological Advances

While medical and technological advances continue to shape and advance health care, there has been growing emphasis on translating these advances into improvement in overall health care quality outcomes in the United States. Innovators such as Abraham Flexner and Ernest Codman engaged in rigorous reviews of systems and patient outcomes igniting wider spread interest in quality improvement in health care. Codman’s efforts even contributed to the founding of the American College of Surgeons. This society catalyzed a quality improvement initiative across the United States and the formation of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Since that time, those such as Avedis Donabedian and the Institute of Medicine have worked to structure the process of improving both the quality and delivery of health care. Significant advances include the defining of minimum standards for hospital accreditation, 7 pillars of quality in medicine, and the process by which quality in medicine is evaluated. All of these factors have affected current practice more each day. In a field such as spinal surgery, cost and quality measures are continually emphasized and led to large outcome databases to better evaluate outcomes in complex, heterogeneous populations. Going forward, these databases will be instrumental in developing practice patterns and improving spinal surgery outcomes.

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